Contributions
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie, c. 1920
Born
Maria Salomea Skłodowska
7 November 1867
Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, then part of Russian Empire[1]
Died
4 July 1934 (aged 66)
Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
Residence
Poland, France
Citizenship
Poland (by birth)
France (by marriage)
Fields
Physics, chemistry
Institutions
University of Paris
Alma mater
University of Paris
ESPCI
Doctoral advisor
Gabriel Lippmann
Doctoral students
André-Louis Debierne
Óscar Moreno
Marguerite Catherine Perey
Known for
Radioactivity
Polonium
Radium
Notable awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1903)
Davy Medal (1903)
Matteucci Medal (1904)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1909)
Albert Medal (1910)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911)
Willard Gibbs Award (1921)
Spouse
Pierre Curie (1859–1906)
Children
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956)
Ève Curie (1904–2007)
Signature
Humble beginnings
Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to the fight against cancer.
Born Maria Sklodowska on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, she was the youngest of five children of poor school teachers.
After her mother died and her father could no longer support her she become a governess; reading and studying in her own time to quench her thirst for knowledge. A passion she never lost.
To become a teacher - the only alternative which would allow her to be independent - was never a possibility because money, or rather lack of it, prevented her from a formal higher education. However, when her sister offered her lodgings in Paris with a view to going to university, she grasped the opportunity and moved to France in 1891.
She immediately entered Sorbonne University in Paris where she read physics and mathematics - her insatiable appetite for learning meant she had naturally discovered her love of the subjects.
It was in Paris, in 1894, that she met Pierre Curie - a scientist working in the city - and who she married a year
Marie Skłodowska Curie, c. 1920
Born
Maria Salomea Skłodowska
7 November 1867
Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, then part of Russian Empire[1]
Died
4 July 1934 (aged 66)
Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
Residence
Poland, France
Citizenship
Poland (by birth)
France (by marriage)
Fields
Physics, chemistry
Institutions
University of Paris
Alma mater
University of Paris
ESPCI
Doctoral advisor
Gabriel Lippmann
Doctoral students
André-Louis Debierne
Óscar Moreno
Marguerite Catherine Perey
Known for
Radioactivity
Polonium
Radium
Notable awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1903)
Davy Medal (1903)
Matteucci Medal (1904)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1909)
Albert Medal (1910)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911)
Willard Gibbs Award (1921)
Spouse
Pierre Curie (1859–1906)
Children
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956)
Ève Curie (1904–2007)
Signature
Humble beginnings
Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to the fight against cancer.
Born Maria Sklodowska on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, she was the youngest of five children of poor school teachers.
After her mother died and her father could no longer support her she become a governess; reading and studying in her own time to quench her thirst for knowledge. A passion she never lost.
To become a teacher - the only alternative which would allow her to be independent - was never a possibility because money, or rather lack of it, prevented her from a formal higher education. However, when her sister offered her lodgings in Paris with a view to going to university, she grasped the opportunity and moved to France in 1891.
She immediately entered Sorbonne University in Paris where she read physics and mathematics - her insatiable appetite for learning meant she had naturally discovered her love of the subjects.
It was in Paris, in 1894, that she met Pierre Curie - a scientist working in the city - and who she married a year